Suspect is a British crime drama television series. Adapted by Matt Baker, it is based on the Danish series Face to Face (Danish: Forhøret), which was created by Christoffer Boe. Suspect premiered on 19 June 2022 on Channel 4.
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Genre | Crime drama |
Based on | Forhøret by Christoffer Boe |
Written by | Matt Baker (series 1) Joy Wilkinson & David Allison (series 2) |
Directed by | Dries Vos (series 1) Carolina Giammetta (series 2) |
Starring | |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
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Executive producers |
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Producer | Ed King |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Eagle Eye Drama Fremantle |
Original release | |
Network | Channel 4 |
Release | 19 June 2022 present | –
It has been commissioned for a second series, with Baker being replaced as writer by Joy Wilkinson and David Allison.[1][2]
A detective, after finding her body in the morgue, retraces the final days of his murdered daughter to discover what happened, interviewing a range of her acquaintances.
The first series was commissioned by Channel 4 in September 2021.[4] Filming for the series began the following month, and generated slight controversy as customers were turned away while filming was undertaken at a Texaco in Vauxhall during the fuel crisis.[5]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.K. viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Jackie" | Dries Vos | Matt Baker | 19 June 2022 | N/A |
2 | "Nicola" | Dries Vos | Matt Baker | 19 June 2022 | N/A |
3 | "Maia" | Dries Vos | Matt Baker | 19 June 2022 | N/A |
4 | "Jaisal" | Dries Vos | Matt Baker | 19 June 2022 | N/A |
5 | "Ryan" | Dries Vos | Matt Baker | 19 June 2022 | N/A |
6 | "Harry" | Dries Vos | Matt Baker | 19 June 2022 | N/A |
7 | "Susannah" | Dries Vos | Matt Baker | 19 June 2022 | N/A |
8 | "Danny" | Dries Vos | Matt Baker | 19 June 2022 | N/A |
The critical response to the first series was lukewarm. Rebecca Nicholson in The Guardian labelled it an "awfully cartoonish crime series" and awarded it two out of five stars.[6] Nick Hilton in The Independent awarded also two out of five stars, and wrote, DS Danny Frater is "hitting every cliché possible, from every genre of detective fiction."[7] Another two stars review was published in i by Rachael Sigee, who criticised "Suspect’s wordy half-hour instalments offered a lot of script but didn’t seem to be saying very much or do enough to make you care about the characters".[8] On Metacritic the series holds a score of 49, "Mixed or average reviews".